GeographyThe Murray River forms part of the 3,750-kilometre (2,330 mi) long combined Murray-Darling river system which drains most of inland Victoria, New South Wales, and southern Queensland. Begins in the Australian Alps. River haven’t much water,
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Geography The Murray River forms part of the 3,750-kilometre
(2,330 mi) long combined Murray-Darling river system which drains
most of inland Victoria, New South Wales, and southern Queensland. Begins in the Australian Alps. River haven’t much water, many of its tributaries dry up and parsed for irrigation
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River transport The lack of an estuary means that
shipping cannot enter the Murray from the sea. However
in the 19th century the river supported a substantial commercial trade using shallow-draft steamboats, the first trips being made by two boats from South Australia on the spring flood of 1853. The PS Murray Princess is the largest paddle wheeler operating on the Murray river